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VOL. XVII.
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W'licu (f5 Mists arc idliletl.
[Selected by L. I. McW.]
Oft with weary, weary yearning,
Faint we on life’s desert plain;
Mem’ry as a mourner turning
To our Eden past'again;
And the world seems dark and dreary,
no'spring or summer bloom—
Naught but winter winds that chill us,
As we tread the starless gloom.
Spirit inly bent aud broken,
With a sorrow for the dead;
And some secret grief unspoken,
Aching frosting heart and head;
yind our hearts grow—oh! so weary,
Waiting on life’s barren shore;
Listening vainly in the gloaming
For the summons to cross o’er.
lint, sometimes th* mists are lifted
From our uim and aching eyes,
And we catch sweet passing glimpses
Of the vales of Paradise; ,
Then vve see the shiniug pathway;
By the saints and angels trod,
Where the tree of life immortal
Shades the eve-blooming sod;
And soft strains of sweetest music
Float across the river wide,
And we see the golden city
Gleaming on the other side—
Sec our loved ones gone before us,
And the harps of gold they bear;
See the pure and spotless garnfents,
And the glorious crowns they wear.
Then the heart forgets its aching,
And the head its throb of pain;
For wo know that not forever
Shall our wailing be in vain.
But, sometime, the mists that shroud us
Shall belified evermoro:
And we’ll cross to rest forever
On that bright eternal shore.
a wifn imINCE.
‘So you don't want me to mar
ry Louis, Aunt SophU ?’ came
from the trembling red lips.—
Georgia Arnold, the willful young
beauty was not in a mood to ap
preciate the wise counsel of her
aunt.
‘I do not want to give my con
sent to a union that would render
you miserable, George,’ replied the
lady, firmly, ‘and you would
would you be the wife of a drunk
ard ?’
‘lie promised roe that he would
quit drinking,’ said Georgia, a lit*
tie tearfully this time.
‘llow long since, child ?’
‘More than a month ago.’
The lady was silent for a few
moments, then she said gravely :
‘Georgia, I told you at first that
the habit was confirmed with Louis
Howe. He was sixteen years old
when I first saw him intoxicated.
He is now twenty-four.’
‘But he may have kept his prom
ise, Aunt Sophie.’
‘Don’t delude yourself with that
belief. Georgia. Louis ifowe pass
ed by here last night so deeply in
toxicated that he could scarcely
hold the reins. You need not
look incredulous, child; it is true.
If he was a man of high moral
principle, I would hope that a wife’s
gentle.influence might save biro.
But I think there is no human help
for him.’
A long pause, during which
Georgia was endeavoring to res
train the tears that would come.—
After a while Miss Chester contin
ued, thoughtfully :
‘I have known one instance
when a wife’s gentle influence sav
ed a noble man from disgrace and
a miserable death, perhaps. But
he had only just began to quaflf
from the poisoned cup, and besides
he was far far superior in charac
ter to Louis Howe. You remem
ber that you were remarking only
the other day upon the happiness
of your cousin, Ada Melbourne
and her husband. They were mar
ried while you were at boarding
school.’
Georgia looked up in eager ex
pectation.
‘I will tell you of it all now.—
Not because I believe that any pure
influence could actuate Louis, but
because it happens to be uppermost
in my mind. Ada was always a
strange girl reserved, modest and
gentle, yet very firm and decided
sometimes. I was never tired of
watching her face —she lived with
me then you know. She was in
all respects such a woman as was
rarely to bo found. One day slio
came to me and told me that one
of her admirers had propos'd.
‘What was your auswer, Ada ?’
[asked.
•I rejected him decidedly. Aunt
Sophie,’ she replied, ‘I would not
marry a man who give promise of
filling a drunkard’s grave.’
•lie drinks ruoderatoly,’ 1 said,
just for the purpose of trying her
•My husband must bo totally
abstetnioue,’sho said firmly.
‘I rejoiced at her decision, and
was still happier when she gave her
promise to Charley Melbourne to
be his wife. They were married,
and, at the urgent request of both,
I went to live with them in their
new home. Their sky was cloud*
less for a time, but after awhtU I
saw that Ada was looking sad and
careworn. I did not question her
aboul it, but waited until she should
come to me, which sho did before
long.
° IN
'Oh, Hunt Sophie, I am so mis
erable,’she exclaimed. I soothed
her tenderly, and after awhile when
she had become calmer, she told
me all. That her rejected' suitor,
from motives of revenge, probably,
was endeavoring to .draw Charley
away from the home i cnees
‘1 have tried to warn she
9aid. ‘but he is generous to a fault,
and will not believe in the possibil
itv of such an act of treachery.—
He went to the club last night
with him, and was almost angry
when I triod gently to remonstrate.
Oh ! what shall I do ?’
was almost despairing then,
and it was nearly beyond my pow
er to encourage her. At length,
however, sho arose, understanding
that she alonp could save him, and
determined to do everything in her
power.
That night Charley did not come
home to tea. I knew that Ada
anticipated a repetition of the last
night’s experience. I could not
sleep, and for dreary hours I could
hear her walking restlessly up and
down in her room. Just at twelvo
Charley came home.
With a wisdom which few per
sons of moro maturo years seem to
possess, she said nothing to him
then His voice floated into me
somewhat huskily, and I feared
the worst. An hour later my
door was opened softly and Ada
came in and threw bersoif down
on the side of tho bed, murmuring
sadly :
‘Oh, Aunt Sophie, it is just as 1
foared ; Charlio has been drinking.
Ho led him into temptation, and
will never be satisfied until he leads
him on to ruin. Ho came to the
door with Charley. I saw him
waiting outside, thinking, perhaps,
to hoar my reproaches and my
grief. Like the Indian at the
•take, however, I suppressed it all.
‘You have acted wisely, dear
Ada, I replied soothingly ; but
don’t despair yet. He has only
just entered upon the downward
path, and yea can save him, if any
earthly power can.’
‘I wish I could think so,’ she
returned. ‘But if you had only
known my anguish when he enter
ed the room an hour ago. He has
never tampered with intoxicating
liquors, and a little has sufficed to
overthrow him completely.’
For a long time she mourned
thus ; then sho recollcctod her de*
termination of the day, and arose
in firm hops. Poor Ada ! I could
appreciate her agony.
Not one word of reproach to her
husband came from Ada's lips the
next day. With smiling face and
cheerful words she greeted him on
every occasion and would have
seemed the most sunny-hearted
creature in the world to a casual
observer. It was not a busy day
with him, therefore ho had no oc
casion to leave home. I arose
from the ton-table first, and as I
passed up the stairs, glanoed into
Ada's sitting-room. Everything
I was-arranged as only Hda’s hand
con 11 have arranged it. neat
ly aril gracefully. I understood
the tender cure she had employed
and hoped that the loving wife
would receive her reward.
They came up together a few
laoraonts later, and since my door
was ajar I could hear every word.
Ada opened her slegantf tnelodeon
and proposed music, Charley
hesitated, and at length tol l her
that lie had promised him —the man
of ‘whom I had ppoken—to meet
him down town on very important
business. There was a short pause.
‘Chailey’-, Ada’s voice was tremb
ling— ( I know well what he wants.
Twice now ho has led you into
temptation. Will you blindly fol*
low him again ?’
‘You are unjust to him,’ said
Charley, loftily.
‘No, Charley, lam not unjust.
But would my love for you he love,
indeed, if I were silent when you
are on the road to ruin V
It was a hard struggle. Hdn
pleaded with all the earnestness of
a true woman’s love, and prevail
ed at length, for I hear 1 him say ;
‘Ada, my noble wife, with heav
en’s help and your’s, I will never
go astray again.’
There were sleepless eyes and
happy hearts in Ada’s home that
night.
Months passed away, and Char
ley, awakened to the full sense of
his danger, succeeded in withdraw
ing himself wholly from the subtle
web that the tempter was weaving
around him. One evening in De
cember wo three were gathered in
the sitting-room. I sat in the lamp
light, sewing, Charley in his luxu
rious arm-chair reading the dailies
and Ada stood by the window, ab**
sently gazing down into the street.
Suddenly an exclamation of sur
prise and astonishment burst from
her lips, and both of us arose und
joined her. Passing, or rather
staggering along tho street, under
the full blaze of the gaslight, was
Charles Melbourne’s tempter, deep
lv intoxicated, looking the wreck
of what ho might once have been.
Charley looked down at him
with pale face until he had passed
from view, then placod his hand on
Ada’s head, and exclaimed with
emotion :
‘Ada, my noble wife, I owe my
recovery from that threatened ruin
to you !’
‘And that man. Aunt Sophie,’
asked Georgia, with interest, ‘who
was he, and is ho still living ?’
‘That man. my dear niece, is
Louis i/owe !’
‘Oh, Alunt Sophie !’ The blue
eyes had a look of sudden fright ;
then her face flushed haughtily.
‘lt is enough I know what answer
to givo him now.’
The next morning, when Mr.
Howe called to hear his final an
swer he received a very decided
“No!”
About I’rinters,
There are not many aged printers.
Now and then wc find a compositor who
set type on the first ediiiou of the Her
aid, but is apt to be a sombre mill -
ionaire to whom the pleasures of exis
tence are a vague nebuloo of report,
rarely the things appreciated. Priur
ters work at night. That necessitates
gas and frequent adjournments to tho
nenrest house of refreshment, l’rin
tvrs are generally thin, pale and fond
of tobacco. Their nervous energy is
given In the service of their employer,
and they rely too often up>n stimulants
ranging from cold tea to'gin and mil! ,
froni rum an! gum to whifcy straight,
fora fictitious strength which wastes
as often ns it is renewed. The fore
men complain of pains in the chest—-
they bend over so much. Proof-read
ers lne their eyesight an 1 h i o buz
zings in ihoir ears. Compositors gel
sore fingers and cricks in their back
Strange ns it may nppeir, although
they go to bed very late they are not
always late risers; but when they get
up their faculties are sleepy. They
are liable to headaches, dyspepsia and
weak baek a . Their physical fibre fail
to keep page with their activity. A“
years go on they become feeble. Lit
tie by little they degenerato from ex
(nr a o n uITL, and thin ibey I ave to
leave their ,! sil/”on the daily press and
seek employment on the less exacting!
weeklies aud trade papers. One of-Ac
worst features of lype-eetfing is ivhat J
is known ns the “wrist drop.” A com
positor uiay be driving away at rapid
rate, when, without warning, his wrist
gives way aiyl his hand fulls helpless
to his side. Tn other words, bo is
‘leaded.’ All workers in metal are lia
ble to this curse, especially when they
are careless in their persona! habit-
Frequent, dareful washing is absolute
ly necessary, and when followed u p is a
sure preventive. — [Ex.
O , Or—
A dJti'e Lives E* ;!• Weeks
YViihtmt SNmhl or VVntct’.
Mr. VV. P. Ford a farmer liv.
ing five miles from the city, near
the junction of tho Western fc#d
Atlantic and Cincinnati "Soutlit 1 rTi
Railroads, tells a remarkable story
about the long fast of o mule, lie
has quite a number of horses and
mules, and four weeks ago last
Sunday he turned the stock in n
fiield to graze.
They all tunc home in tho after
noon except a certain largo mule,
on tho following morning search
was instituted for the missing ani
mal, but he could not be found.—
Inquiry was mule in all directions,
but no traces of the hard kicker
could be discovered. Last Sunday
Mr. Ford was walking in the same
field, with his thoughts far distant
from his lost mule. Ho walked to
tho brink of an excavation eight or
ten feet deep, and there stood the
missing beast.
From a robust and heavy ani
mal ho had dwindled down to a liv
ing skeleton. There was no mud
or water in the sink to nppause his
thirst and nothing to cat within his
reach. Ho bid simply fasted f< r
four weeks. Help was soon pro
cured and the mule was dug out
No sooner wero hi-* feet firmly
planted on top of the ground than
ho started off on a trot toward the
house. Jle was provided for and
is getting along all right. Mr.
Ford accounts for his fasting by
his being a Democratic mule, and
has been living on the tidings of
the joyful victory. [Chattanooga
De roocrat.
Tlie Valley • lbe Vile.
The most fertile land in the world is
the Valley of the Nile. Egypt was
•tbi ut tlie first settled country on the
-lobe, and with the East formed the
“cradle of mankind” because of the fer
tility of the soil and the ease with
which it could be culivated. Four
crops a year a>c grown upon the land
of 'that country almost without culti
vation, the. farming implements used in
all ages being such as would scarcely
be recognized as possessing auy prac
tical vaiue among civilized nations.
There are lands at ihe mouth of the
Mississippi river as rich, perhaps, as
those of the Nile, but they are not yet
sufficiently above the sea level for cul
tivation, and then Louisiana is without
the perpetual spring of Egypt. The delta
lands of the Ganges, perhaps, make the
nearest approach to those of the Nile,
f T. LEWIB;
{ EDITOR.
and nextonmes the Ainaz in Valley n
South America, which is doob'less tl e
largest body of really fertile land in
ihe world. It is not a rainless country'
like Egypt. h >tvcver, and ha 9 its for-'
tilitv carried away by almost ceaseless
torrents of rain during the winter sea
son.
fEntiil 4’o rn
Hog cholera is very common aud
very destructive in Georgia The fi>V
lowing suggeiteJ remedy is Irom th*
Le wist own Gazette, an Illinois paper.
There can bn n> harm in trying i*
"Every paper in the United State*
ought occasionally to keep the fact be
fore its readers that burnt uorn is a
cert tin and speedy cure for hog cholera.
The best way is to make a pile of corn
on the cob*, effectually scorch if, and
then give affected hogs free aeees* to if.
This remedy was discovered by E. E.
Docks ut the time his distillery ws*
burned in this county, together with a
large Ini of store corn, which was *w
much injured as to be unfit fur use,
which was handed out and greedily
eaten by the hogs, several of which
were dying daily. After the second
day not a single ling was lost, and the
disease entirely disappeared. Tbo
remedy has been tried in a number of
eases since and never failed,” [Ex.
Tli Constitution,
For 1889-S.
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before to maintain its position
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Those who need ready money, should write
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Notice is hereby given that an Act enti-.
lleil ‘An Act, to appropriate the proceeds of*
the hire of convicts from the county of
(Jreene, to the payment of insolvent cow*
flue the different officers of sail county,
will be applied for at the meeting of 111*,
next General Assembly of the State of
Georgia.
Oct. 19, 1882—It.
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